EARTHY BLUE IRON-ORE. 805 Chemical Characters. Before the blowpipe, it immediately loses its blue co lour, and becomes reddish-brown, and, lastly, melts into a hrownish-black coloured slag, attractable by the magnet. It communicates to glass of borax a brown colour, which at length becomes dark yellow. It dissolves rapid y *U acids. Constituent Parts. From Eckartsberg. Oxide of Iron, - - 47 50 Phosphoric Acid, - 32.00 Water, - - ' 99.50 Klaproth, Beit. b. iv. s. 122. Geognostic Situation. It occurs in nests and beds in clay-beds, also dissemi H ated in bog iron-ore, or incrusting turf and peat. /geographic Situation. Europe.—On the surface of peat-mosses in several of *he Zetland Islands ; and in river-mud at Toxteth, near Liverpool ; Iceland; Helsingor on the Island of Seeland; Schonen in Sweden; Russia; Maschen in Hanover; Steinbach, Oberlichtenau, and Weissig in Upper Lu- s atia; Silesia; Suabia; Upper Palatinate; Bavaria; Carniola * : France. . . v,u III. U J "“- * Dr Clark,, upun the .nbjttt of this mineral, in a 1 "'- 10 Dr na »ark« > «• That it occur* in the mouth of the Cimmerian osp torus, /'•IIajI